AFSA

Astana Financial Services Authority

AIFC

Astana International Financial Centre

AML

Anti-Money Laundering

Binary-mode token

Binary-mode token(s) are tokens that can exist either in private state or public state. Tokens in private state are circulated only on the permissioned Corda distributed ledger and can be transferred out to a public blockchain by a mechanism of 1:1 pegging (e.g. 1 XPU token to 1 XPU ERC token). Tokens transferred out onto public blockchains are said to be in a public state.

CME

Chicago Mercantile Exchange

DABS

Digital Asset Backed Securities are the digital representations of real assets on the blockchain- Tokenised versions of assets that can be traded directly and immediately on digital exchanges, stored on digital wallets and exchanged for other asset tokens within the same or other asset classes.

Dapps

Dapps are Decentralized Applications that exist and run on a blockchain or P2P network of computers rather than a single computer.

DLT

Distributed Ledger Technology

ETF

Exchange-Traded Fund

IAM

Identity and Access Management

ICO

Initial Coin Offering

KYC

Know Your Customer

OTC

Over-The-Counter

RFQ

Request-for-quote

STP

Straight Through Process

XPAT

CrossPool Asset Tokens

XPDL

CrossPool Distributed Ledger

XPFS

CrossPool File System

XPTS

CrossPool Trading System